From a Wall Street Journal story headlined “Five Best Books on Walking”:
Selected by David Guterson, the author of Snow Falling on Cedars and, most recently, The Final Case.
Wanderlust
By Rebecca Solnit (2000)
1. In her acknowledgments for “Wanderlust,” Rebecca Solnit points out that “walking has a multitude of amateurs.” She isn’t one of them, as her book attests. While its subtitle describes it as a history of walking, “Wanderlust” is interested in far more than that. One of its subjects is “the pace of thoughts,” or the intimate relationship between thinking and walking; as it turns out, a host of deep cogitators and philosophers—Bentham, Hegel, Kant, Kierkegaard, Mill, Wittgenstein—walked habitually as a spur to their work.